I’ve been listening to Jason Miller’s class and he says curses are the easiest form of magic. Thoughts?

[MorganBlack]

For context, Jason Miller, like many magicians, operates under the 1970's occult author Edward Peach (Ophiel) framework that thinks in of magic in terms of probability. Dean Radin's work tends to reinforce this view. I even operate under it myself sometimes.

I think many magicians leave this model open for the occasional outright miracle, but then say don't structure your life to so you are dependent on a Hail Mary pass just to get by. I think this is a good rule of thumb for magic , if you still allow for and expect the occasional outright miracle.

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I think it was in his Creative Visualization where Ophiel talks about the Sphere of Availability, which usually gets translated something like: You can enchant for a new lover, but if you never go outside, you're reducing your odds to suitable pizza delivery people. And how many are there of those? Your magic worked and you odds went from 24 million to 1, to only a million to 1 odds, but they are still terrible odds if you never leave your bachelor pad.

So ,if we only only look at pure probability , then cursing may be easier, because there are so many ways for a life to go badly: disease, car accidents, psychotic neighbors, knife attacks, rampaging hyenas (okay, maybe not the last one in the US)... as opposed to enchanting for that one special thing, that one celebrity you are infatuated with to waltz into your life and fall in love.

The probability / Sphere of Availability model is fine as a general approach, but there are additional factors. How much protection are they under through allies, their HGA, or their own personal power? How famous are they, with many public minds upholding a view of them and therefore a specific quantum reality?

A traditional sorcerer will first approach their allies, especially if that person is the aggressor, and get them to leave them unprotected first by informing them of what they did, or by buying them off. And if that does not work, then their friends, employees, and families are left unprotected and are targeted. This is playing hardball, and for keeps.

 

[Tehuti]

I’ve been listening to Jason Miller’s Hekate class and whenever curses get brought up, he says that it is the easiest form of magic because it doesn’t require skill. I was wondering what other people‘s thoughts were on this. I’m pretty new to this, and I previously thought curses may have been one of the more difficult forms of magic because it has such a long-term impact and causes so much damage.
I was wondering if anyone had experience with this and if it was easier or harder to get results compared to other magic you’ve tried? It sounded counter intuitive to me but I wanted to get a read from people who are more involved than me.

I may agree with him that curses can seem easy, especially in my culture where anyone can do it and that it will be effective.you just need need is to pour water on the ground and pronounce your judgment. Christians, Muslims, or even atheists can do it, belief isn’t even necessary for it to work. someone could simply mention the names of wellknown river deities while making the curse. I have witnessed a group of individuals about 10 perish because of feeding on just one duckling belonging to one fetish priest.